How much revenue did Dezinsector make?

$449–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dezinsector sell?

Q: How many copies did Dezinsector sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; $449–$1k after Steam's cut $816–$2k before Steam's cut; from 22 reviews (Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Dezinsector and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dezinsector's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 148k–377k

best case 708k (Orcs Must Die!)

Games like Dezinsector

A typical game among these

≈ 148k–377k copies

≈ $518k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Orcs Must Die! at ≈ 539k–876k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 421 reviews in their first month; the range was 58 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Third Person, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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